COLLECTION NUMBER:
C076.
NAME OF COLLECTION:
Paul T. Mizony Fort Rosecrans Collection.
LOCAL CONTROL NUMBER(S):
Photographic prints: OP 15642/0-57A.
DATES OF MATERIAL:
1902-1911.
EXTENT:
59 photographic prints: b&w; 10 x 8 in. or smaller.
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Paul T. Mizony.
REPOSITORY:
San Diego History Center
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203
ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Transfer from Union Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1979.
RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.
COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives at the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: Paul T. Mizony Fort Rosecrans Collection, San Diego History Center, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.
GENERAL NOTES:
Forms part of San Diego History Center Title Insurance Collection.
ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT:
Arrangement: numerical.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
Paul T. Mizony (1881-1975) served at Fort Rosecrans in the National Guard of California, Coast Artillery Corps, 8th Company, from 1905 to1911.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTES:
Documents military service at Fort Rosecrans on Point Loma between 1905 and 1911. Includes coastal batteries, ordnance warehouse, barracks, guardhouse, and other buildings; soldiers firing 10-inch guns, standing guard duty, and playing pool; war and supply ships in San Diego Harbor, steamers and launches at the landing pier; the old Spanish Lighthouse [i.e. Point Loma Lighthouse] and Ballast Point Lighthouse. Of special note, Mizony’s photographs of pioneer aviator Lincoln Beachey at the controls of a Curtiss airplane, and his half-brother Harold I. Mizony, later killed in action on Saipan Island in 1944.
SUBJECTS INDEXED:
Lincoln Beachey.
United States – National Guard of California.
Forts & fortifications – California – San Diego.
San Diego (Calif.) – Military service.
Fort Rosecrans (San Diego, Calif.)
CONTENTS LIST:
OP 15642/0
Portrait of Paul T. Mizony, 1902
OP 15642/1
Mizony standing next to 60-inch searchlight [ca. 1908]
OP 15642/2
U.S. coal ship anchored in San Diego Harbor [ca. 1910]
OP 15642/3
U.S. destroyers entering San Diego Harbor [ca. 1910]
OP 15642/4
Fort Rosecrans, looking south
OP 15642/5
[Lt. George M. Harris?] leaving pier at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/6
Steamer docked at Fort Rosecrans pier
OP 15642/7
Old Spanish Lighthouse as it was from 1907-1913
OP 15642/8
View of Fort Rosecrans from San Diego Bay
OP 15642/9
[Lt. George M. Harris?] leaving pier at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/10
U.S. Coast Guard’s Point Loma Light Station
OP 15642/11
U.S. Coast Guard’s Point Loma Light Station
OP 15642/12
Gun crew with 10-inch gun on disappearing mount
OP 15642/13
Ballast Point Lighthouse
OP 15642/14
Curtiss airplane on the beach near pier at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/15
Rapid-fire gun at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/16
Lincoln Beachey at the controls of his plane, North Island [1911?]
OP 15642/17
Lincoln Beachey at the controls of his plane, North Island [1911?]
OP 15642/18
Storm damage on North Island, March 21, 1910
OP 15642/19
Firing 10-inch gun
OP 15642/20
View of Fort Rosecrans, looking north, with Ballast Point in foreground
OP 15642/21
Two 12-pounder Napoleons used for saluting at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/22
Firing 10-inch gun
OP 15642/23
Target raft hit by 10-inch gunfire
OP 15642/24
Mizony’s half-brother Harold I. Mizony in operating room at Fort Rosecrans hospital
OP 15642/25
Side view of 10-inch gun on disappearing mount
OP 15642/26
Landing pier at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/27
California National Guard summer camp chow line at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/28
Ferry boat in San Diego Bay
OP 15642/29
Glass bottom boat
OP 15642/30
Four soldiers playing pool in Fort Rosecrans hospital basement
OP 15642/31
Mizony standing next to 60-inch searchlight [ca. 1908]
OP 15642/32
Soldier standing on the west side of Point Loma [above an abandoned coal mine?]
OP 15642/33
C.A.C. guard at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/34
California National Guard summer camp tents at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/35
C.A.C. buglers
OP 15642/36
C.A.C. guard at Fort Rosecrans
OP 15642/37
Two civilians and soldier standing next to [15-pounder rapid-fire?] gun
OP 15642/38
Hospital at Fort Rosecrans, exterior view
OP 15642/39
Barracks for 115th Company, C.A.C., Fort Rosecrans; Mizony’s room for six years was located on the top floor, far right window
OP 15642/40
Fort Rosecrans gymnasium (left) and guardhouse (right)
OP 15642/41
Fort Rosecrans gymnasium
OP 15642/42
Fort Rosecrans guardhouse and flagpole
OP 15642/43
Fort Rosecrans Post [i.e. National] Cemetery, with granite obelisk memorial to USS Bennington sailors who died in 1905 boiler explosion [ca. 1910]
OP 15642/44
Buildings at Fort Rosecrans, looking north
OP 15642/45
Ordnance warehouse and barracks for 28th Company, C.A.C., (left) and guardhouse (right)
OP 15642/46
Target raft hit by 10-inch gunfire
OP 15642/47
Storm damage on North Island, March 2, 1910
OP 15642/48
Target raft on shore, with Ballast Point in background
OP 15642/49
Target raft and water spray from 10-inch gunfire
OP 15642/50
Fort Rosecrans buildings, from left to right: guardhouse, 28th Company barracks, gymnasium, 115th Company barracks, hospital, and officers’ quarters
OP 15642/51
Officers’ quarters
OP 15642/52
28th Company, C.A.C., launch
OP 15642/53
Steamer General DeRussy , damaged after running into a coal bunker pier at night in heavy fog
OP 15642/54
Battleship USS South Dakota , with San Diego in the distance
OP 15642/55
Supply ship
OP 15642/56
Mizony’s “motor boat” [i.e. launch]
OP 15642/57
Night firing at Fort Pio Pico, a sub-post of Fort Rosecrans on North Island
OP 15642/57A
Battleship USS South Dakota
